Gordon Brown: Falling Or Being Pushed?

Posted on November 29, 2007
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Conspiracy theories are sometimes fun, but they always seem to depend upon the intellectual capabilities and competence of people who do not normally demonstrate that they possess either, like politicians and businesspeople.

So, is Gordon Brown (aka Mr Bean, the Grand Bottler, Brown Envelope and Brown Knows) simply inept, incapable, clumsy and incompetent or are there dark forces lurking behind the scenes who are pulling the political strings and making this clunking puppet stagger out of the political arena?

The Guardian leader today retails the accumulating tales of woe for Gordon Brown under the heading “Sinking further into the mire” and it is followed by a comment from writeon:

I just wonder, is there a giant right-wing conspiracy at work here to bring down Gordon Brown? What gives advantage to real conspirators is the bias in the media towards the cock-up theory. I’ve already heard several journalists use the term to decribe the current situation. They seem to almost automatically disregard conspiracy, prefering the comforting concept of cock-up. This attitude is, of course, gives a tactical advantage to any conspiracy.

My paranoid theory is that Brown is in trouble because he is perceived as being slightly less pro-American than Tony Blair. Less willing to “serve” and certainly of far less value in domestic and international politics. Brown, compared to Blair and Sarkozy, just doesn’t seem as gushingly, sickeningly, loyal. He has difficulty expressing undying love like the other two. He gives the impression of scepticism in relation to the American imperial project. This alone would mark his card, but there’s more.

Brown appears unwilling or unable to commit Britain to America’s wars with sufficient vigour and enthusiasm. Maybe he’s genuinely unethusiastic about war as a panacea for international conflicts? Brown also seems not to want to increase the defence budget by the ammounts required to fight America’s wars properly. Britain needs to employ wartime levels of expenditure in wartime, yet Brown is trying to do it all on peacetime budget. But diverting substantially increased resources to the military will require sacrifices at home which will be unpopular. The Tories look like they are willing to follow orders, where Brown is dragging his feet. So Brown has to go. Is it really that simple? Perhaps not, but I can’t help but wonder.

It is always better to look at our leaders as somewhat trivial and non-autonomous creatures, but it does not necessarily have to be an ‘either or’ situation.

It is perfectly possible that Gordon Brown is being manipulated by shadowy forces at the same time as being an imbecile.

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